Landing and starting carriage for airships



Sept. 15, 1925. 1,553,586

K. ARNSTEIN LANDING AND STARTING CARRIAGE FOR AIRSHIPS Filed May 6, 1922 flaw/(fol Patented Sept. 15, 1925.

UNITED STATES KARL ARNSTEIN, O'F FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, GERMANY,. ASSIGNOR TO THE FIRM: LUBE 'SCHIFFBAU ZEPPELIN, GESELLSCHAF'I.

RICHSHAFEN, GERMANY. I

LANDING AND STARTING Application filed Kay '6,

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, KARL ABNSTEIN, a citizen of Czechoslovak Republic, residing at Friedrichshafen a/B., Germany, have in- .5 vented certain new and useful Improvements in Landing and Starting Carriages for Airships, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has reference to landing and starting carriages for air ships and the like, and it is an important object of my invention to so arrange and modify the construc tion of devices of this kind as to enable them to be used as an anchoring or fastening trestle. and in accordance with my invention provision is made of means on the part secured to the air ship for allowing of attaching the fastening means to an anchoring point on the ground or on a scaffold.

A particularly simple manner of fastening is obtained by providing the carriage with an anchoring device preferably"'con sisting of a globular jointed button which fits in a socket rigidly secured to the ground 25 or to any other suitable support, and in which the jointed button is retained in such a. manner that it allows of the air ship to be swung to the direction of the wind and also in the vertical direction within certain imits.

My invention will be explained by aid of the accompanying drawing showing by way of example a form of embodiment of my invention. Figure 1 illustrates a landing and starting carriage in combination with the anchoring portion in the round, and iseen in the longitudinal direction of the 11111.

Figure 2 is a side view corresponding to Figure 1.

Figs. 3 to illustrate on a larger scale the means for removably securing the carriage to the ground, Fig. 3 being an elevation, partly in vertical section, and Fig. 4 a plan view, while Fig. 5 is an end view, taken in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 3.

The four struts a secured to the hull of the ship constitute an inverted pyramid. The

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transverse beamo, carrying the wheels b rocks on the stud d which is connected to the .truts a by means of the metal bearing sheets e. The anchoring means are constituted by a globular button f engageable with the socket g which latter is secured in the concrete block 72.. The locking member 2' I retains the globular button 7 in the socket, while it permits the button to turn in the horizontal plane. and it also allows of rock ing in a vertical plane to a certain extent.

A pin j serves for locking the member 23 in operative position.

While I have shown my invention as embodied in a preferred form of construction it is obvious that it is adaptable to a variety of other pieces of apparatus of the kind described, and that it may bemodified to suit various conditions of use and the convenience of the operator, without deviating from the spirit of my invention as pointed out in the claims hereunto appended.

I claim 1. Truck for aircraft transport comprising a frame, a wheel axle and a pair of wheels and means associated with said frame intermediate said wheels for securing said truck to a fixed point on the ground in an easily disengageable manner whereby lifting of the truck is rendered impossible.

2. Truck for aircraft transport comprising a frame, a wheel axle and a pair of wheels and one half of a movable joint attached to said frame intermediate said wheels for securing said truck to the other half of said joint fixed to the ground whereby lifting of the truck is "rendered impossible.

3. Truck for aircraft transport comprising a frame, a wheel axle and a pair of wheels and one half of a ball joint attached to said frame intermediate said wheels for securing said truck to the other half of said joint fixed to the ground 4. Truck for aircraft transport com rising a frame on wheels having substantially the form of an inverted pyramid and one half of a. ball joint fixed to the lower point of said frame, so as to be easily connected with the other half fixed to the ground.

5. Truck for aircraft transport comprising a frame, a wheel support jointedly se- 8 cured to said frame, fastening means on said frame, a receiving socket rigidly secured outside of said frame and engageable with said fastening means and locking means in' said socket, whereby the frame is supported freely with the wheels free of the ground,

In testimony whereof I af'fix my signature.

KARL ARNSTEIN. 

